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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. f.<br />Meaning: [[ass]], [[female ass]] (Λ 558), often metaph., e.g. <b class="b2">windlass, winch, the upper millstone</b> (<b class="b3">ὄ</b>. <b class="b3">ἀλέτης</b>; cf. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 58), as fishname (after the grey colour or the great head as sign of stupidity?), s. Strömberg 100;<br />Other forms: Myc. <b class="b2">ono \/onos</b>\/.<br />Compounds: Very often as 1. member, a.o. in plantnames as <b class="b3">ὀνο-θήρα</b>, <b class="b3">-κάρδιον</b>, <b class="b3">-πορδον</b> (Rohlfs ByzZ 37, 53f.), <b class="b3">ὄνοσμα</b> (s. Strömberg 138 a. 61); on <b class="b3">ὄνιννος</b> s. v., on <b class="b3">ὄναγρος</b> = <b class="b3">ὄ</b>. <b class="b3">ἄγριος</b> <b class="b2">wild ass</b> Risch IF 59, 286 f.; as 2. member in <b class="b3">ἡμί-ονος</b> f. (m) [[mule]] (Il.), cf. Risch l.c. 22f.<br />Derivatives: 1. Several diminut., partly in metaph. meaning: <b class="b3">ὀν-ίσκος</b> m. (Hp., Ph. Bel.), <b class="b3">-ιον</b> (<b class="b3">-ίον</b>?) n. (pap.), <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">-άριον</b> (Diphil. Com.), <b class="b3">-αρίδιον</b> (pap.), <b class="b3">-ύδιν</b> (?; pap. IV p). 2. Other subst.: <b class="b3">ὀνίς</b> f. <b class="b2">donkey droppings</b> (IA.); <b class="b3">ὀνῖτις</b> f. <b class="b2">kind of marjoram, Origanum heracleoticum</b> (Nic., Dsc. Gal.; Redard 75, Andrews ClassPhil. 56, 75f.); <b class="b3">ὀνίας</b> m. <b class="b2">kind of σκάρος</b> (Ath.; on the meatnames in <b class="b3">-ίας</b> Chantraine Form. 94); <b class="b3">ὀνεῖον</b> n. <b class="b2">donkey stable</b> (Suid.). 3. Adj.: <b class="b3">ὄν-ειος</b> <b class="b2">of a donkey</b> (Ar., Arist.), <b class="b3">-ικός</b> <b class="b2">belonging to a donkey</b> (NT, pap., inscr.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">donkey-like</b> (Arist.). 4. Verb <b class="b3">ὀνεύω</b> <b class="b2">to draw with a windlass, to draw up</b> (Th., Stratt.). On <b class="b3">ὄνωνις</b> s.v.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Foreign word. After Brugmann IF 22, 197ff. (s. Kretschmer Glotta 2, 351) from <b class="b2">*osonos</b> (through <b class="b2">*ohonos</b> > <b class="b2">*hoonos</b> = <b class="b3">ὁ ὄνος</b>[?]) and with Lat. [[asinus]] a loan from a southpontic language; here after B. also Arm. [[ēš]], gen. <b class="b2">iš-oy</b>. One considers also Sumer. [[anšu]] [[ass]] (s. Neumann, IF 69, 61). -- Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 271ff. with important details; further lit. in W.-Hofmann s. [[asinus]]. -- Not to Lat. [[onus]] [[burden]] (thus still Grégoire Byzantion 13, 287ff.), also not to Hebr. <b class="b2">ā̂tōn</b> <b class="b2">female ass</b>. - Prob. a Pre-Greek word.